The surveillance-as-a-service industry needs to be brought to heel

Here we go again: another example of government surveillance involving smartphones from Apple and Google has emerged, and it shows how sophisticated government-backed attacks can become and why there's justification for keeping mobile platforms utterly locked down.What has happened?
I don’t intend to focus too much on the news, but in brief it is as follows:
Google’s Threat Analysis Group has published information revealing the hack.
Italian surveillance firm RCS Labs created the at